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AUTOGRAPH CARD SIGNED
Porter, Katherine Anne.
[N.P.]: [to Paul Porter], October 10, 19_.
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Porter, Katherine Anne.
[N.P.]: [to Paul Porter], October 10, 19_.
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HOMEWORK FOR JAMES, Fair Holograph Copy of the Poem, Signed
Van Duyn, Mona.
[NP]: , [ca. 1974].
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Van Duyn, Mona.
[NP]: , [ca. 1974].
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![First edition. First and only printing. Signed and dated at the front fee endpaper: "Charlotte Perkins Gilman / 1909 — Jan. 26th". 8vo, 390pp; brown gilt-stamped cloth. Tips and foot of spine lightly worn; additional mild wear along spine where it joins the front cover. Generally a firm, fresh and pleasing copy. Very good. Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935), a member of the illustrious Beecher family, is considered the leading intellectual of the woman’s movement. Her most important and influential book, WOMAN AND ECONOMICS (1898), an extremely successful book with nine printings between 1898 and 1920, with translations into several foreign languages, was to be succeeded by HUMAN WORK. She wrote and rewrote the text, but was not satisfied with the result. When she realized it would not be ready for publication on time, she started another book, CONCERNING CHILDREN. Returning to HUMAN WORK again (having completed yet another book entitled THE HOME: Its Work and Influence), the author explained the length of time necessary to write it by saying it "was not to be reeled off like my usual stuff". [Lane, A. J. THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN]. Gilman thought the book her best and most important title, although it did not sell well, to her great disappointment. She brings together many of the same major themes of her first three books in HUMAN WORK: the economic subordination of women; the belief of human changeability and progress; and the need to replace male power with female principles of nurture and cooperation. The main theme, however, was the value of work as an end in itself, as its own reward rather than what work would "get" for the worker, as well as a corresponding disavowal of consumerism. An important text, the culmination of the writer’s most critical and influential thinking. NAW II, pp. 39-42. Scharnhorst 1104. WOMEN'S WRITING, pp. 348-350.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15311.jpg "First edition. First and only printing. Signed and dated at the front fee endpaper: \"Charlotte Perkins Gilman / 1909 — Jan. 26th\". 8vo, 390pp; brown gilt-stamped cloth. Tips and foot of spine lightly worn; additional mild wear along spine where it joins the front cover. Generally a firm, fresh and pleasing copy. Very good. Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935), a member of the illustrious Beecher family, is considered the leading intellectual of the woman’s movement. Her most important and influential book, WOMAN AND ECONOMICS (1898), an extremely successful book with nine printings between 1898 and 1920, with translations into several foreign languages, was to be succeeded by HUMAN WORK. She wrote and rewrote the text, but was not satisfied with the result. When she realized it would not be ready for publication on time, she started another book, CONCERNING CHILDREN. Returning to HUMAN WORK again (having completed yet another book entitled THE HOME: Its Work and Influence), the author explained the length of time necessary to write it by saying it \"was not to be reeled off like my usual stuff\". [Lane, A. J. THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN]. Gilman thought the book her best and most important title, although it did not sell well, to her great disappointment. She brings together many of the same major themes of her first three books in HUMAN WORK: the economic subordination of women; the belief of human changeability and progress; and the need to replace male power with female principles of nurture and cooperation. The main theme, however, was the value of work as an end in itself, as its own reward rather than what work would \"get\" for the worker, as well as a corresponding disavowal of consumerism. An important text, the culmination of the writer’s most critical and influential thinking. NAW II, pp. 39-42. Scharnhorst 1104. WOMEN'S WRITING, pp. 348-350.")
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904.
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Lyon, Mary.
South Hadley Canal: to Messrs. Merriam, Booksellers, Nov. 14, 1836.
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Lyon, Mary.
South Hadley Canal: to Messrs. Merriam, Booksellers, Nov. 14, 1836.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER, regarding Myrtilla Miner's 'The Colored Girls School"
[African-American], [Miner, Myrtilla] Burgess, D.
New York: to Messrs. G & C Merriam, Sept. 22 1852.
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[African-American], [Miner, Myrtilla] Burgess, D.
New York: to Messrs. G & C Merriam, Sept. 22 1852.
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Johnson, Lady Bird and Carlton B. Lees.
New York: Abbeville Press, (1988).
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![Holograph letter in which Ella Bloor Reeves recommends the work of a suffrage activist. Single sheet: 6-1/2 x 10", folded to 6-1/2 x 5", 4pp; buff stationery with engraved decorated initial "E" at the first leaf; written at the first and third leaves. Folded to fit an envelope; 1/4" closed tear (not affecting text) to right edge; scattered ink stains to blank opposite p. 3; "1909" supplied in pencil above the date. About very good. . Mrs. Bloor writes as the 'State Superintendent, Department - Women In Industry' for the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. She warmly recommends a suffrage activist whom the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association recently has hired: "I want to tell you how much your Assoc. is to be congratulated in acquiring Mrs. W. H. Garner as one of your active workers. [Para] In Conn. she was President of The Political Study Club of New Haven and when we went before the Legislative Committee in the House of Representatives to plead for our Municipal Suffrage Bill - her speech before the Committee impressed them more than almost any other — ". Ella Reeve Bloor (1862-1951), "Mother Bloor", labor organizer, radical, suffragist, and writer, is best known, or rather notorious, as a labor organizer and cofounder of the American Communist Party. Unlike many radicals, Ella could trace her American roots back to the 17th c. on her mother's side, whose forebears settled in Connecticut, and to the 18th c. on her father's side, whose Dutch and English forebears settled on Staten Island (where Ella was born). A great-uncle, Dan Ware, an active abolitionist, Unitarian and freethinker, counter weighed the conservative cast of her parents. As a young married woman, she became involved in reform movements which supported women's rights. And, while she later focused more on labor unions and political issues, Ella Bloor continued throughout her life to lobby for women's equality whether by walking in the 1913 Washington, DC parade or arguing for women's status in the Socialist and Communist parties. The letter documents the kind of legislative lobbying the suffragists poured such energy at the national and state level from the 1870s to passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1919-1920. For a full profile of Ella Reeve Bloor, see NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN The Modern Period, p. 85-86. The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith holds her papers; and its catalog records relatively few letters documenting her suffrage activity and even fewer predating 1910.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15221.jpg "Holograph letter in which Ella Bloor Reeves recommends the work of a suffrage activist. Single sheet: 6-1/2 x 10\", folded to 6-1/2 x 5\", 4pp; buff stationery with engraved decorated initial \"E\" at the first leaf; written at the first and third leaves. Folded to fit an envelope; 1/4\" closed tear (not affecting text) to right edge; scattered ink stains to blank opposite p. 3; \"1909\" supplied in pencil above the date. About very good. . Mrs. Bloor writes as the 'State Superintendent, Department - Women In Industry' for the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. She warmly recommends a suffrage activist whom the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association recently has hired: \"I want to tell you how much your Assoc. is to be congratulated in acquiring Mrs. W. H. Garner as one of your active workers. [Para] In Conn. she was President of The Political Study Club of New Haven and when we went before the Legislative Committee in the House of Representatives to plead for our Municipal Suffrage Bill - her speech before the Committee impressed them more than almost any other — \". Ella Reeve Bloor (1862-1951), \"Mother Bloor\", labor organizer, radical, suffragist, and writer, is best known, or rather notorious, as a labor organizer and cofounder of the American Communist Party. Unlike many radicals, Ella could trace her American roots back to the 17th c. on her mother's side, whose forebears settled in Connecticut, and to the 18th c. on her father's side, whose Dutch and English forebears settled on Staten Island (where Ella was born). A great-uncle, Dan Ware, an active abolitionist, Unitarian and freethinker, counter weighed the conservative cast of her parents. As a young married woman, she became involved in reform movements which supported women's rights. And, while she later focused more on labor unions and political issues, Ella Bloor continued throughout her life to lobby for women's equality whether by walking in the 1913 Washington, DC parade or arguing for women's status in the Socialist and Communist parties. The letter documents the kind of legislative lobbying the suffragists poured such energy at the national and state level from the 1870s to passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1919-1920. For a full profile of Ella Reeve Bloor, see NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN The Modern Period, p. 85-86. The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith holds her papers; and its catalog records relatively few letters documenting her suffrage activity and even fewer predating 1910.")
Bloor, Ella Reeve.
[Connecticut]: to "Friends of N.J.W.S.A.", Nov. 15h [1909].
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![Two holograph letters signed "Stevie Smith" and "Stevie". (1) Two sheets: 7 x 5-1/4", pale gray stationery, written on three sides in blue ink. Folded once to fit an envelope. Very good. (2) Two sheets: 7 x 5-1/4"; pale gray stationery, written on all four sides. Folded once to fit an envelope. Very good. Also present is an envelope addressed in Smith's hand to James Turner with the ink notation at the reverse, "missing letter". To fellow poet and writer James Ernest Turner (1909-1975). The first letter is more reserved and from Smith's opening, apparently they had met only once: "Dear James, (If this not too beastly familiar - but I remember that party)". She is delighted he likes her poem, "Pretty", which, one infers, the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT recently printed. "Oh what labour, oh Prince, what pain" to get anything out in the Times Lit... A thousand ages in their signed seems much what it is in God's only rather less". She encourages him to send her his poems and praises his SHROUDS OF GLORY, "that I must say I did like". The second letter, written early the following year, suggests the growth of warmth between the two writers; Smith closes the letter with "Love, Stevie". She thanks him for his poems [possibly THE INTERIOR DIAGRAM and Other Poems published in 1960] and, in turn, tells him she appreciates "the kind things you say about my two". He is recovering from a nasty injury to his heel and while off his feet he has been reading Smith's poems aloud to himself. "It's nice of you to have been reading these poems aloud, & funny too in a way, as I have been doing quite a lot of it (reading them) lately, & I wonder how a writer can mark, or punctuate, his poems so as to get the accent & emphasis & all of it, firmly fixed, & timed, — as you can with music". In a postscript she enthuses, "You are good at seeing things in your poems, an absolute march of magnificent visions ... the thought comes in pictures. I'm not much good about poetry, can't think why, it's odd somehow, as I never seem to stop writing it". Very nice content.](/wharton/images/items/120x300/15172.jpg "Two holograph letters signed \"Stevie Smith\" and \"Stevie\". (1) Two sheets: 7 x 5-1/4\", pale gray stationery, written on three sides in blue ink. Folded once to fit an envelope. Very good. (2) Two sheets: 7 x 5-1/4\"; pale gray stationery, written on all four sides. Folded once to fit an envelope. Very good. Also present is an envelope addressed in Smith's hand to James Turner with the ink notation at the reverse, \"missing letter\". To fellow poet and writer James Ernest Turner (1909-1975). The first letter is more reserved and from Smith's opening, apparently they had met only once: \"Dear James, (If this not too beastly familiar - but I remember that party)\". She is delighted he likes her poem, \"Pretty\", which, one infers, the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT recently printed. \"Oh what labour, oh Prince, what pain\" to get anything out in the Times Lit... A thousand ages in their signed seems much what it is in God's only rather less\". She encourages him to send her his poems and praises his SHROUDS OF GLORY, \"that I must say I did like\". The second letter, written early the following year, suggests the growth of warmth between the two writers; Smith closes the letter with \"Love, Stevie\". She thanks him for his poems [possibly THE INTERIOR DIAGRAM and Other Poems published in 1960] and, in turn, tells him she appreciates \"the kind things you say about my two\". He is recovering from a nasty injury to his heel and while off his feet he has been reading Smith's poems aloud to himself. \"It's nice of you to have been reading these poems aloud, & funny too in a way, as I have been doing quite a lot of it (reading them) lately, & I wonder how a writer can mark, or punctuate, his poems so as to get the accent & emphasis & all of it, firmly fixed, & timed, — as you can with music\". In a postscript she enthuses, \"You are good at seeing things in your poems, an absolute march of magnificent visions ... the thought comes in pictures. I'm not much good about poetry, can't think why, it's odd somehow, as I never seem to stop writing it\". Very nice content.")
Smith, [Florence Margaret] Stevie.
Palmers Green [London]: To James [Ernest] Turner, May 2nd 1959 and Jan. 17th 1960.
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[Christmas] Dillard, Annie.
[NP]: , [ND].
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TRAVELS WITH ALICE
Trillin, Calvin.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989.
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Trillin, Calvin.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989.
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Dodge, M[ary] A[bigail].
Hamilton, Mass.: To Mr. [Michael Laird] Simons, Jan. 17, 1873.
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Simpson, Mona.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
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Spencer, Elizabeth.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1981.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Martin, Anne.
[Washington, D.C.]: , 9 November 1915.
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Martin, Anne.
[Washington, D.C.]: , 9 November 1915.
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Four Typed Pages, Original Typescript of RED SILENCE
Norris, Kathleen.
[NP]: , [ca. 1928].
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Norris, Kathleen.
[NP]: , [ca. 1928].
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Dodge, Mary A[bby].
Hamilton, Massachusetts: , January 3, 1894.
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Dodge, Mary A[bby].
Hamilton, Massachusetts: , January 3, 1894.
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Sigourney, L[ydia] H[untley].
Hartford, Connt.: to Rev. Joseph Belcher, April 22 1839.
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Sigourney, L[ydia] H[untley].
Hartford, Connt.: to Rev. Joseph Belcher, April 22 1839.
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![First trade edition. [First edition, second issue (trade), first printing]. Inscribed by Eudora Welty on the front free endpaper: "For Howard with Love from Eudora and with gratitude for your wonderful piece. New York, May 25, 1972". 8vo, 180pp; bone linen cloth stamped in gold front and spine; beige dust jacket lettered in black, brown and purple. Top edge stained brown. This novella received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A masterly telling of a father's death. Miss Welty's exact ear for speech, her delicate sense of irony and her profound tolerance for the foolish as well as the wise among us render THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER perhaps the most perfect of her fictions. Howard Moss (1922-1987) served as the poetry editor of THE NEW YORKER from 1948-1987. He published a number of books, among them: THE TOY FAIR (1954), A SWIMMER IN THE AIR (1957); A WINTER COME, A SUMMER GONE (1960), and SECOND NATURE (1968). He also wrote reviews for THE NEW YORK TIMES. In May, 1972 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW featured Moss' warm, appreciative review of THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER which he described as "The best book Eudora Welty has ever written...a long goodbye in a very short space not only to the dead but to the delusion and to sentiment as well". An exemplary association copy. Fine. Polk A19:1b. Note: "Eudora Welty's new novel about death and class". NYTBR 21 MAY 1972: 1, 18. University of Mississippi archives hold three complete issues of the review, including galley proof. Marrs, THE WELTY COLLECTION, I46 (p. 211).](/wharton/images/items/120x300/14493.jpg "First trade edition. [First edition, second issue (trade), first printing]. Inscribed by Eudora Welty on the front free endpaper: \"For Howard with Love from Eudora and with gratitude for your wonderful piece. New York, May 25, 1972\". 8vo, 180pp; bone linen cloth stamped in gold front and spine; beige dust jacket lettered in black, brown and purple. Top edge stained brown. This novella received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A masterly telling of a father's death. Miss Welty's exact ear for speech, her delicate sense of irony and her profound tolerance for the foolish as well as the wise among us render THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER perhaps the most perfect of her fictions. Howard Moss (1922-1987) served as the poetry editor of THE NEW YORKER from 1948-1987. He published a number of books, among them: THE TOY FAIR (1954), A SWIMMER IN THE AIR (1957); A WINTER COME, A SUMMER GONE (1960), and SECOND NATURE (1968). He also wrote reviews for THE NEW YORK TIMES. In May, 1972 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW featured Moss' warm, appreciative review of THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER which he described as \"The best book Eudora Welty has ever written...a long goodbye in a very short space not only to the dead but to the delusion and to sentiment as well\". An exemplary association copy. Fine. Polk A19:1b. Note: \"Eudora Welty's new novel about death and class\". NYTBR 21 MAY 1972: 1, 18. University of Mississippi archives hold three complete issues of the review, including galley proof. Marrs, THE WELTY COLLECTION, I46 (p. 211).")
Welty, Eudora.
New York: Random House, (1972).
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McManus, Blanche.
[Munich]: To her sister, March 7. '97.
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McManus, Blanche.
[Munich]: To her sister, March 7. '97.
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